Kangxi came to the gate of Cining Palace and looked at the familiar door lintel, with a complicated look in his eyes.

He lived outside the palace until he was eight years old. Only during festivals could he briefly enter the palace to see his father and mother. Those were the few happy days in his childhood.

He was not brought back to the palace until his father was critically ill, and he almost witnessed his father's death with his own eyes.

A year after he ascended the throne, his mother passed away.

He lost both his parents when he was only ten years old.

Only Ukuma Ma was left to depend on him.

For a long time after that, he really...treated Ukumama as his mother.

That's why he was so angry when Yinreng placed the Empress Dowager in the Cining Palace.

He now has one foot halfway into the coffin. Even if he doesn't want to admit it, he can't erase the envy of the Queen Mother from his heart.

"Your humble servants and others pay their respects to the Emperor..."

Kangxi was stunned when he heard this. He looked in the direction of the voice and found that the person who greeted him was the young eunuch at the gate of Cining Palace.

The strange feeling in my heart was fleeting.

He had also heard that Yinreng did not allow palace servants to call themselves slaves, but no one in Qixiang Palace dared to apply this rule in front of him.

Even during holidays, everyone tacitly avoided him.

He used to be the most honorable person in the palace, but now he has become someone that others avoid.

If it weren't for what happened last night, he would definitely hate Yinreng even more.

But now, Kangxi didn't care.

"Get up."

Kangxi walked into the Cining Palace and found that the places he had demolished had been renovated.

He originally thought that the Queen Mother still lived in the main hall of the Cining Palace. However, just as he was about to go there, the eunuch beside him reminded him,

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager lives in the East Wing Palace..."

Kangxi paused slightly, then turned in a different direction with a complicated look in his mind.

According to seniority, after Yinreng ascended the throne, the empress dowager's status would indeed be raised one level, but when he heard that these servants had changed their names, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

But on the other hand, he felt that the Queen Mother was quite sensible not to live in the main palace.

These two emotions intertwined together, making him feel mixed emotions.

When he arrived at the Queen Mother's bedroom, she was still lying on the bed, sound asleep.

After carefully questioning the Empress Dowager's personal nanny, I learned that during this period, the Empress Dowager was awake for less than three hours a day.

Kangxi knew clearly what this meant.

The Queen Mother's time is running out...

Kangxi sat in front of the empress dowager's bed, took a warm handkerchief and wiped her palms, and said softly,

"Empress Dowager, Xuanye is here to see you."

"I still remember when I first ascended the throne, Mama always taught me to be filial to you. I eventually broke my promise. At that time... I was forced into a corner. The only thing I remembered in this palace was this Cining Palace..."

In Kangxi's memory, Xiaozhuang was the only person who was willing to stand up for him when he was wronged, and Kangxi had an especially deep affection for Xiaozhuang.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, before Xiaozhuang died, he had promised to treat the Empress Dowager and Yinreng well, but he did a mess of it.

Kangxi talked about his experiences in the past few years, and finally burst into tears.

"I now know I was wrong, can you forgive me?"

The Empress Dowager moved her hand gently and patted the back of Kangxi's hand.

"Empress Huang?"

Kangxi looked up in surprise and looked at the empress dowager's cheek.

The Queen Mother arched her eyebrows at Kangxi.

"Xuanye...you and Yinreng...are both good children. Be good..."

Kangxi nodded hurriedly.

"I understand..."

After Kangxi visited the Empress Dowager, he seemed to have taken off some shackles. He exuded a sense of indifference to the world and lived a more relaxed life.

When Yinreng went to the Cining Palace to pay his respects, he would occasionally run into Kangxi. The father and son still had nothing to talk about, but the relationship was no longer as tense as before.

Two months later, the Empress Dowager passed away.

Yinreng was extremely sad.

However, his sadness was not as easily revealed as Kangxi's, and only those who were very close to him could notice his low mood.

Yinreng didn't have much time to waste on grief. Just after the funeral of the Empress Dowager was over, Yinreng received a letter from the fourth brother.

After reading the letter, Yinreng realized that the Middle East was still controlled by a powerful empire, and that there had been wars there for years. 20,000 naval forces were not enough to shake the foundation of that empire.

So the two men seized two deserted islands nearby and now plan to build a military base on them.

Yinreng vaguely remembered that there seemed to be an empire recorded in the history books of middle school, but he could not remember the name of that empire no matter how hard he tried. So he hurriedly went to look through the letters exchanged between Kangxi and Western countries, and finally found the name -

Ausmane Empire.

If he remembered correctly, this empire seemed to have some ideas about the Russians' land.

The two countries fought to the death, and in the end, those places seemed to have become colonies of foreigners...

If that's the case, Yinreng pinched his chin, greed flashing in his eyes. If the foreigners can develop that place into a back garden, why can't they?

Perhaps if the local indigenous people were occupied by the Qing Dynasty, life would be much better.

After all, China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times.

Of course, if the natives are dissatisfied, they can also bang bang bang...

Yinreng immediately called the eldest, eighth and ninth sons to the Qianqing Palace to discuss the matter.

Several people stayed in the Qianqing Palace to discuss for a few days and finally reached a consensus.

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